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This is the story of how the various Saxon kingdoms were forced by circumstances to unite - effectively becoming England.

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war.Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain's fin de sicle, this book examines works by notable writers - including Rosario de Acua, Blanca de los Rios, Concepcin Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women's representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

Draws from historic publications, eyewitness accounts, military records and contemporary studies to trace the evolution of Prussia from its rise under Grand Elector Friedrich Wilhelm to the wars against Napoleon over 150 years later.

Until this book was published in 1974, many of the letters in this book between Charles I Prince Rupert his nephew and the leading Royalist commander had never been published. From a mainly private collection, the letters give a fascinating insight into the stormy relationship between the monarch and his nephew.

"The Viking Age--between 750 and 1050--saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology, their art and culture. From Bjèorn Ironside, who led an expedition to sack Rome, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardâottir, the most traveled woman in the world, Price shows us the real Vikings, not the caricatures they've become in popular culture and history"--Provided by publisher.

The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the rugged mountains of the Peninsula; from Egypt's Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of New Orleans. Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars provides a comprehensive guide to the Napoleonic Wars and weaves together the four strands - military, naval, economic, and diplomatic - that intertwined to make up one of the greatest conflicts in history. Written by a team of the leading Napoleonic scholars, this volume provides an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of why the nations went to war, the challenges they faced and how the wars were funded and sustained. It sheds new light not only on the key battles and campaigns but also on questions of leadership, strategy, tactics, guerrilla warfare, recruitment, supply, and weaponry.

Zur Erinnerung an den Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg sind in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten zahlreiche Sammelbände und Monographien erschienen. Man könnte annehmen, dass dieses Thema schon ausreichend erforscht worden ist, was natürlich nicht der Fall sein kann. Denn in diesem "ersten Weltkrieg" haben so viele Akteure interveniert, dass noch lange nicht alle Dokumente, Briefe, Akten, Pläne, Memoranden, Augenzeugenberichte, Tagebücher etc. ausgewertet sind. Insofern ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass Teodora Toleva (1968-2011), eine junge, ambitionierte und viel zu früh an den Folgen einer schweren Krankheit verstorbene Historikerin aus Bulgarien, der dieser Gedenkband gewidmet ist, in den letzten Jahren ihres Lebens ebenfalls zum Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg Forschungen betrieben hat. Leider hat ihr früher und tragischer Tod die Vollendung ihres ehrgeizigen Forschungsprojekts verhindert. Dank der Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger aus mehreren Ländern, die alle an dieser Gedenkschrift mitgearbeitet haben, sollen ihre unvollendeten Forschungen durch neue Aspekte zu dem Thema ergänzt werden.

"Ertholmene – en lomme i tiden, et sted i nuet" er en fotografisk skildring af Christiansø i dag med kortfattede tekster. Fotografen Janne Klerk og historikeren Rasmus Voss, der begge har et nært kendskab til Ertholmene, har i samarbejde skildret øernes rige natur- og kulturhistorie: Billederne viser tidens og menneskenes spor på Ertholmene og den levende natur i evig forandring, mens teksterne fortæller om øernes historie gennem tiderne og frem til i dag. Ertholmene, som består af Christiansø, Frederiksø og mindre ubeboede øer, har både været base for pirater, militær fæstning og scene for dramatiske krigsbegivenheder, kunstnerkoloni og fiskersamfund. Øerne udgør en egen verden langt ude i havet omkranset af fæstningsmure og med to mægtige, runde tårne, der troner over hele sceneriet. Rå klipper, blæst og bølgebrænding præger den østlige del af fæstningen, mens man længere inde på øerne kan finde gårdhuse med blomstrende haver og skyggefulde skov- og kratområder. På klipperne ligger små klynger af stenhytter med sorttjærede gavle, og i de små damme kvækker frøerne lystigt mellem åkander og dunhammere. I billeder og tekst portrætteres Ertholmene, en af de mest særprægede lokaliteter i det danske kongerige, skabt i et samspil mellem menneske, natur og tid – den evige forandringsskabende kraft.Teksterne er i 3 versioner: dansk, engelsk og tysk.